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/(Jit CHHTEJTO ffiHRffiOIlT 8221 SUNSET BOULEVARD HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES , CALIFORNIA Wedri PM I am so far aiiead of my producer that I am taking the rest of this week off from the office while he tries to catch uo with the 165 page treatment which I dictated in three weeks, after my first week of discussing and of seeing movies, and in my 1 1/2 day of FREEDOM so far I haven1t done one damn thing exceot catch up on a lot of sleep, finish-up reading some thick books on Western desperadoes that I had borrowed"" from MGM's extensive research library, and have lunch this noon with-Barry -V-ouJ^ e °*-^ <6 H '** ^J Vn< ^ J 3 ^ n 0 \f » -r <?> \ 7** ■\5 Fitzgerald; and be introduced to John Carradine,, who sat at next table.,..Most worthy thing I've heard here yet:-next month Car- radine starts off with repertory company to play Shakespeare through the country. He hates: it here, after 14 & o tf f T J>P QV^ ♦ ^i ft r 9 > v* ■v* a f\f D Vu^ maybe out to sec) at Lewis Santa Monica, Browne's and years of it. (And what insane tragedy to stay here all that time, in that case1. Four t e en whole years-out of the few years one y^ has ill a lifetimel)lf } you we*re here — oh G-OD how I wish you were ,-A my darling — I would be going out these after- nppns, even with gas short age, to Selwyn's or Geo Cukor's swimming pool, or to have a drink (White Rock, triple go lie on the not-far§?off beach. -o <r> 5 1/2 more weeks and then 3 days travel and I'll see you. Dore Schary vastly likes my completed script — only it h^s too much in it — which is fine, because it gives him, and me, a chance to select. \~j»-^ 4-s^v «jL I« <K /- —

/(Jit CHHTEJTO ffiHRffiOIlT 8221 SUNSET BOULEVARD HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES , CALIFORNIA Wedri PM I am so far aiiead of my producer that I am taking the rest of this week off from the office while he tries to catch uo with the 165 page treatment which I dictated in three weeks, after my first week of discussing and of seeing movies, and in my 1 1/2 day of FREEDOM so far I haven1t done one damn thing exceot catch up on a lot of sleep, finish-up reading some thick books on Western desperadoes that I had borrowed"" from MGM's extensive research library, and have lunch this noon with-Barry -V-ouJ^ e °*-^ <6 H '** ^J Vn< ^ J 3 ^ n 0 \f » -r > \ 7** ■\5 Fitzgerald; and be introduced to John Carradine,, who sat at next table.,..Most worthy thing I've heard here yet:-next month Car- radine starts off with repertory company to play Shakespeare through the country. He hates: it here, after 14 & o tf f T J>P QV^ ♦ ^i ft r 9 > v* ■v* a f\f D Vu^ maybe out to sec) at Lewis Santa Monica, Browne's and years of it. (And what insane tragedy to stay here all that time, in that case1. Four t e en whole years-out of the few years one y^ has ill a lifetimel)lf } you we*re here — oh G-OD how I wish you were ,-A my darling — I would be going out these after- nppns, even with gas short age, to Selwyn's or Geo Cukor's swimming pool, or to have a drink (White Rock, triple go lie on the not-far§?off beach. -o 5 1/2 more weeks and then 3 days travel and I'll see you. Dore Schary vastly likes my completed script — only it h^s too much in it — which is fine, because it gives him, and me, a chance to select. \~j»-^ 4-s^v «jL I«